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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Some privacy measures are at least being con
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red for the new RFID-enabled U.S. passport...
Photo Stitching http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Unicorn/unicorn_in
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.ht...
April 18 to 24, 2005
3D street paintings: http://gneijsel.xs4all.nl/mailgein/Street%20paintings%20(THESE%20ARE%20ALL%20FLAT%20
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WALKS).ht...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Pre
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nt Bush's approval rating is the lowest ever for a 2nd-term pre
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nt. J-Walk provides a nice graph...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Is Hawaii turning into a consumption-addicted haven for the wealthy at the expense of long-time re
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nts and native familes? The state's only international cargo shipping terminal is near capacity...
Power to the people? For the first time a blogger is given access to a White House press briefing: http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/west_wing_reportage/in
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_the_gaggle_19209.as...
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart
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steps a town ordinance limiting store size by building two Wal-Marts next to each other...
Nike launches "Con
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red", an eco-friendly line of shoes...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Fujitsu's 120GB notebook drive.
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note - a friend asked a major hard drive recovery specialist which drives they thought were the most reliable. The answer - Seagate for desktops, and Hitachi fo...
More on T-Mobile's security - an undocumented backdoor in their systems allowed a hacker to gain access to extremely confidential customer information, including people's data from their
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kicks...
This pill camera takes 50,000 pictures of your in
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s over eight hours...
February 21 to 27, 2005
Boston re
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nt Geoff Hargadon made a popular parody of the art installation "The Gates". His site got 4 million hits, and he got a reception with the mayor, appearances in international newspaper...
February 14 to 20, 2005
A muralist is jailed for painting breasts in a Michelangelo reproduction on a wall out
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his studio...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Along
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the Super Bowl, the Discovery Channel ran the "Puppy Bowl", twelve hours of puppies playing on a football mat. It was a huge hit with viewers, who found it strangely addicting. You can bu...
The same developer made this chess program where one can see the lines of strategy that the computer is con
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ring...
Writing a screenplay? Here's why movies go bad, written by an industry in
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r - too many writers...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
I broke down and got one of the last iPod shuffles - the 1GB model - at the Ala Moana Apple store. Its competitors tout radio and recording capabilities, but on such gadgets the line-in recordin...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Generate, print, and cut your own 12-
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d calendar...
January 17 to 23, 2005
Inspiring photos of the pre
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ntial inauguration...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The big news in Kev's world this week was the introduction of the Mac mini - it's a small yet powerful box not much wider than a CD that supports pretty much any display, keyboard, and mouse for $500...
Another crack in the suburban facade: In the Bay Area, 50% of re
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nts want new homes built closer to job centers...
January 1 to 9, 2005
An architecture firm is turning the con
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rable amount of waste from Boston's massive Big Dig project into office buildings and groovy-looking modern housing...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Spin" - then: This movie made of 100% unauthorized satellite TV footage is a fascinating look into how global communications technology was used by the image makers in the 1992 pre
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ntial election...
"Living Out
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In
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" - a book on design that integrates interior and exterior space. This reminds me of a story Yoko Ono told about moving to the West from Japan at age 14, where she had lived in ...
November 1 to 7, 2004
But that's not why this ex-Reserve Kauai re
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nt is making world news by suing over his recall to active duty after 13 years of being out of the service...
That flu vaccine from Chiron was tainted with the same bacteria that was once con
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red so safe in the 1950's that the Army released clouds of it over California in secret germ-warfare experiments...
October 25 to 31, 2004
"Why I believe in our pre
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nt"...
October 4 to 10, 2004
What were the candidates scribbling on during the Pre
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ntial debates? Here's Bush's notepad...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Suburbia is a health hazard - a new study has found that not only are people less healthy due to overdependence on cars, but from a community design perspective, it's a very inefficient way to live...
In
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the recently upgraded world's third-most-powerful supercomputer at Virginia Tech (it's also powered by Mac OSX)...
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) tells his
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of the story...
Incredible photorealistic art made with Adobe Illustrator, complete with how-tos: http://homepage3.nifty.com/high
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/gallery.ht...
September 20 to 26, 2004
Since 1980, sales of pre
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ntial masks have predicted the election correctly...
September 5 to 12, 2004
How can arts and culture transform a neighborhood? The documentary "Down
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UP", about the largest museum of contemporary art in the U.S. and how it transformed an 80 percent vacant town into ...
Bring out your Uzis! The assault weapon ban has expired with much debate on both
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s...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Disney creates a revolution in fireworks by creating a compressed air launching system. Air-launched fireworks are more precise, less polluting, safer, and can be launched higher. How about using thi...
The city of Philadelphia is con
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ring providing free or cheap wireless Internet access to everybody...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Me and my friends recently switched from T-Mobile due to lousy service. Here's another sad customer: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/tmobile-
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kick-ii-review-best-phone-ill-never-buy-019948.ph...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Abu Ghraib: "...private-sector employees actively took part in horrifying prisoner abuse". Examines the growing trend of the government to
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step laws by hiring corporations to do the dirty work...
Our wonderful Pre
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ntial candidates...
The daily adventures of Mixerman are back, the true diaries of a top audio producer in LA. Get the in
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story of how the industry works...
July 19 to 25, 2004
An in
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look at the birth of the iPod. Its manager quit because he had no confidence it would be popular. He works for Microsoft now...
The dark
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of the obesity epidemic - parents struggle to keep their large kids from being locked up by authorities...
July 12 to 18, 2004
What globetrotting Laurie Anderson is up to these days, NASA's first artist in re
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nce...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
20% of U.S. re
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nts admit that they buy products advertised in email spam...
Car VIN (vehicle identification) numbers are running out. This is a much thornier problem than the Y2K issue. With fascinating information about how VIN numbers are encoded...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Real-time file sharing music popularity results re
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at BigChampagne - this blows SoundScan out of the water, or could if the RIAA doesn't sue everybody...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Seattle's new public library looks quirky out
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but is astounding in
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. May make you rethink the role of (public) architecture. And check out the great VR movies...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
Before you laugh, try a little thinking out
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of the box: Hawaii needs low-cost housing solutions - how about using used shipping containers? Many well-designed structures have been made worldwide...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Is this true? The radiation in Iraq (via depleted uranium bombs) is now equal to 250,000 Nagasaki bombs? http://www.dis
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ntvoice.org/Mar04/Nichols0327.ht...
A good review of a new book that refuses to take
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s - it's about David Chain, the first casualty in the war between environmentalists and the timber industry in Northern California...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
Hawaii construction and typical apartment developments use a lot of concrete, a material that John Lautner con
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red "most desireable" for his needs. But these developments often end up being block...
Looking at the other
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of the world, here's an overview of China's recent massive architectural works: "...the building boom sweeping over China has no precedent in human history." They're usin...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Ever wonder why so many business majors think Microsoft invented computing? A study of eight textbooks reveals total ignorance of the role of Unix in business...
This was widely circulated last week. Lots of ammo building up on both
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of the issue...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Is your identity safe? The story of how American medical records and credit histories are being exposed out
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the U.S. with no privacy guarantees. One reporter's fascinating detective work throug...
March 8 to 14, 2004
A new DVD recorder from HP burns silkscreen-like labels on the entire
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of the disc...
HSS claims to have already scored a hit on the charts with the single "Left Out
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Alone" by Anastacia. I admit it's catchy...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Cinergy becomes the first electric utility in the U.S. to offer high-speed Internet service via its power lines. The benefits of using such as service in Hawaii are obvious (reach rural areas, les...
February 9 to 15, 2004
There was a little buzz around the net last week regarding "peak oil". The term refers to the point at which worldwide oil production will peak, which is currently predicted to happen in 2015. Jo...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
Well, the last week has been short on news, due to my being stuck in California at a crappy hotel - Crowne Plaza - the toilet's broken, the hot/cold faucets are reversed, the vending machine doesn'...
January 19 to 25, 2004
Amazon.com now allows you to contribute funds to pre
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ntial candidates with the ease of 1-click shopping...
November 17 to 23, 2003
The epidemic is so bad that the U.S. government last week developed a 10-year plan to battle it. Now it is thought to effect 6 of 1,000 kids: "Autism no longer con
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red a rare condition...
November 10 to 16, 2003
A study of the Web sites of the ten pre
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ntial candidates found that most violated speed and accessibility guidelines. The worst offender with the most code-bloated, inefficient, inaccessible We...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
"Why Those Young Men Aren’t Watching TV Anymore" http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/Business/SiliconIn
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October 20, 2003
Finally, on an artistic note, beautiful painterly abstract photos taken from the
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s of boxcars...
October 14, 2003
The FCC is not really on your
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, people, despite their "do not call" list.....
September 22, 2003
This has been popular this week: Al Franken's Supply-
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Jesus...
September 8, 2003
Sick On The Insid...
August 25, 2003
I think this item ties in well with last week's item about the coral reefs dying. A
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from preserving beauty and diversity in the environment, there is great economic incentive to explore the thing...
July 21, 2003
"Discontented Americans Con
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r Canada...